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A leading women folks’s rights activist who has campaigned against transgender women folks using feminine-very finest spaces has been doused with tomato soup again.
Kellie-Jay Enthralling, who is also acknowledged as Posie Parker, was leading a Let Females Discuss rally in the centre of Sheffield the day earlier than this day afternoon when a 6ft-plus man approached her from behind and poured a tin of Heinz soup over her head.
The 34-year-mature man then attempted to flit the scene but was chased by fellow women folks’s rights campaigners and police later took him away in handcuffs.
MailOnline can show that the one who centered Ms Enthralling is Ben Lindsay, a college graduate who boasts online about being Southampton Solent’s first Pupil Equality & Diversity associate.
South Yorkshire Police relish confirmed that Lindsay, from Barnsley, has been charged with two counts of assault by beating and could maybe silent seem earlier than Sheffield Magistrates’ Court docket on November 25.
Ms Enthralling, who was also centered with soup during her Let Females Discuss tour at some stage in Australia and Contemporary Zealand closing year, instructed MailOnline: ‘I felt rather defiant. It’s so silly because it be honest soup, but I honest felt then it would no longer in truth matter what they attain.
‘They’ve honest confirmed my point, and now we relish to earn on with this and let women folks communicate.’
Kellie-Jay Enthralling (centre) is seen getting tomato soup poured over her head in Sheffield the day earlier than this day
Ms Enthralling holding the tin of soup after it was poured over her head the day earlier than this day afternoon
The one who centered Ms Enthralling is Ben Lindsay (pictured), a college graduate who boasts online about being Southampton Solent’s first Pupil Equality & Diversity associate
Ms Enthralling instructed how she was leading a rally in Sheffield at spherical 1pm, but dozens of trans-activists had been holding a counter-boom.
She explained: ‘In the center of setting up the YouTube are living chase, a one who was about 6ft got right here up behind me and poured a tin of tomato soup for the duration of my head.
‘I didn’t in truth think concerning the amount of soup nonetheless it was different soup. It covered my arms and the front of my top and my assist and my hair. Females for the duration of got right here with water bottles to instantly eliminate it.
‘He then ran off, chased by just a few women folks, and the police bought him. He was arrested, remanded in custody. I gave a statement, as did the assorted lady assaulted who helped with my tech, and he’s been charged with assault by beating.’
The attack is reminiscent of when Ms Enthralling was mobbed by counter protesters who opposed her gender serious views. They doused her in tomato soup during a rally in Contemporary Zealand closing March earlier than she had the likelihood to communicate.
Comparing the two incidents, she instructed MailOnline: ‘The closing time it came about to me, it provoked the mob that had already assembled to level up while you occur to like and I genuinely thought I used to be going to lose my lifestyles that day, which sounds very hyperbolic but totally correct. I even though if I hit the ground, I am going to never get up.
‘That was the point of what he was doing with the soup [this time], it be all tied up in intimidating women folks so we manufacture no longer in truth feel like we can communicate in public.’
Ms Enthralling said it feels ‘very queer’ when a substance is poured over you, adding: ‘It takes extra than a pair seconds in your brain to project what it is.’
The campaigners continued the rally but Ms Enthralling hit out at the police for failing to gaze out for ladies folks’s safety.
She said: ‘It honest feels from an operational level that our safety is no longer taken very severely. The threat of the trans activists is no longer taken very severely.’
Ms Enthralling believes the trans activism is ‘rife in the colleges’, adding: ‘I think it be very frightening how distinguished energy this cult looks to yield.’
Kellie-Jay Enthralling, who is also acknowledged as Posie Parker, has campaigned against transgender women folks using feminine-very finest spaces
Ms Enthralling addresses a demonstration by Let Females Discuss at the mound on April 6, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland
She welcomed police swiftly charging Lindsay but fears that he will seemingly be given a mild-weight sentencing – as she hit out at the heavy detention heart terms handed out to rioters who made depraved comments online.
Ms Enthralling continued: ‘I am honest very aware, over the old couple of months in this country of us were whipped into court docket, almost certainly been given frightful legal advice and in pronounce that they’ve been instructed that if they plead responsible everything’s going to be fine and dandy, after which they’re going to prison for 15 months for a Fb put up that will seemingly be a shameful, depraved thing to say.
‘Nonetheless I am thinking… if he gets decrease than 15 months inside for what I clutch into consideration an act of terrorism, which below the stipulation of what terrorism is, which is an act with a political intention, and the intention right here is to discontinue women folks speaking, I’d in truth hope that he gets longer inside than a pensioner saying something off color online, or even vile, online.
A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police said: ‘A 34-year-mature man has been charged with two counts of assault by beating following an incident in Sheffield metropolis centre earlier this day (21 September).
‘Ben Lindsay, of Fitzwilliam Avenue, Barnsley, was arrested by officers earlier this afternoon during a demonstration in Barkers Pool.
‘He has since been released on conditional bail and could maybe silent seem earlier than Sheffield Magistrates’ Court docket on 25 November’.
